Re: How to contribute ?

Leandro Cunha Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:32:16 -0800

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 4:06 PM Maxime Lombard <berilli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm an user of Debian since 10 years ago and it's only now that i decide to 
> help to packaging.
> I send this email about wine and wine-development package which are not 
> updated since a very long time.
>
> The last wine stable version on Sid is the 5.0 and development version is 
> 6.0+repack. Currently, the wine source code is frozen and the new stable 
> version 7.0 will release next month.
> --> I sent email to Michael Gilbert (without answer from him) and open a bug 
> report recently to update package.
>
> Same thing with vkd3d package 1.2 which is still in "experimental" since a 
> long time too.
> I think it's not in Unstable because the test fail with mesa-vulkan-driver >= 
> 21 (see changelog)
> --> I open a bug report upstream about this failure (see 
> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52248). Is it possible to build the 
> package without to do test (set --disable-tests to configure) ?
>
> Nowadays, the last package of wine-development was uploaded ~6 months ago. 
> More bugs report opened the last months have no answer from Maintainer 
> (999753, 995580), same thing with vkd3d bug (994186, 993570)
>
> I packaged myself vkd3d 1.2-7  and wine-development 7.0~rc2 and all works 
> correctly.
> I updated debian folder for wine to prepare the next Stable version.
>
> My question is, how to contribute and hope to have updated version of this 
> package in Debian since I am a novice ?
>
> Thanks for your answer,
>            Maxime


Yes, there are some packages that haven't been updated for a while.
One of them is the retroarch that next year completes its second without
updates and the chromium.
And I believe it is open to anyone who wants to contribute.
There are some processes such as ITS, NMU, QA (orphan packages) and team
upload (for packages kept in teams where it is necessary to work with
someone on the team or be part of the team).

I usually help with QA work and team uploads. But I did deal with ITS once.

Full reference on this.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#managing-packages
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp
https://wiki.debian.org/WNPP
https://wnpp.debian.net

I remember thinking that it was necessary to be a DM or DD to
contribute to Debian
and over time I realized I was wrong.

Happy 2022! ;)

-- 
Cheers,
Leandro Cunha
Information Systems Developer and Software Engineer.

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